Being beautiful and having a slim body has become a norm today, which everyone wants to achieve today. People are bombarded with incredibly beautiful images when watching TV, surfing the Internet and reading magazines, which emotionally compels them to become like them. People today believe that perfect beauty and slimness is a standard and can be achieved by wearing beautiful clothes, applying makeup and body contouring. The media has taken control of people's minds by pressuring them to look like celebrities and one of these images plastered on these beauty and health related magazines and advertisements. The media has made the beauty industry a huge hype. Showing white faces, selling different types of creams and serums only harms women's self-esteem. Women are no longer confident about their beauty and their bodies, which pushes them to buy clothes and diet products to reform them. According to Yahoo News, "research indicates that exposure to images of thin, youthful, airbrushed female bodies is linked to depression, loss of self-esteem, and the development of unhealthy eating habits in women and girls” (Shaw). seeing images everywhere and wishing you looked like them, but those images are just airbrushed photos that are corrected by technology by hiding imperfections and dark circles. Celebrities often mislead common people by getting a perfect body through crash diets and exposing their bodies in public, so that people can get an idea to change themselves. Often people forget that in reality, even celebrities look like them. Celebrities do have blemishes, dark circles, acne and marks on their faces, which are corrected and hidden by makeup. Celebrities also have fat in their bodies, but they just follow diets and quick routines, which makes the middle of paper too precious. Works Cited Boyd, Hannah. “Girls and body image: loving the one inside.” March 15, 2010 http://www.education.com/magazine/article/Girls_and_Body_Image_Help_Your/Hirsch, David. “Body image and children”. February 25, 2010<http://children.webmd.com/building-healthy-body-image-for-children>.Jean Kilbourne, Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising (New York : The Free Press, 1999) Katharine D. Gapinski, Kelly D. Brownell, Marianne LaFrance, Body Objectification and "Fat Talk": Effects on Emotion, Motivation, and Cognitive Performance, Sex Roles 48, nos.9/10 (May 2003 ) Slevec, Julie and Marika Tiggemann. “ATTITUDES TOWARDS COSMETIC SURGERY AMONG MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN: BODY IMAGE, ANXIETY OF AGING, AND THE MEDIA.” Psychology of Women Quarterly 34.1 (2010): 65+. An academic record. Internet. August 3. 2010